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A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
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The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.
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The highest Beauty should be plain set.
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People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
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